Reader's Advisory: Horror

What is Horror? • An intense, painful feeling of repugnance or fear. • That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible, gloomy or dreary. • A shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

What is horror fiction? Broadly defined, a story intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. On the most basic level horror fiction contains a monster, whether it be supernatural, human or a metaphor for the psychological torment of a guilt-ridden human.

A guided nightmare ride that can shock, educate, illuminate, threaten, shriek, and whisper before it lets the readers loose. - Robert McCammon

“Horror is not a genre like mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special shelf in libraries or bookstores. Horror is an emotion.” – Douglas Winter, Prime Evil

Did You Know? Horror is one of the most pervasive literary types. Elements of horror can be found in almost every genre: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, even westerns. Not considered a separate genre until about 1985 when the beginnings of the Horror Writers Association was formed.

Appeal Factors Provokes a emotional/physical response in the reader. Allows a safe exploration of The Dark Side. Encourages escape from everyday reality. Validates a belief in supernatural. Provides a place to face our fears.

Ghosts and Haunted Houses • Most often involves tales of buried guilt. • Ghost or haunted house is usually a portent to the guilty party or even to someone innocent. • Examples: The Turn of the Screw The Haunting of Hill House The Shining Nazareth Hill Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

Mythological Evil • Often based on monsters from religion or mythology. • “Monster” derives from the Latin monstere, to show. • Often involves divine warnings about consequences of human action. • This type of evil often threatens entire populations. • Examples: The Shadow Out of Time – Lovecraft The Servant of the Bones – Rice The Descent – Jeff Long Phantoms – Koontz The Oath – Frank Peretti

Splatterpunk • More a style of writing than a theme. • Characterized by a grotesque decadence. • Graphic sex and violence for their own sake. • No reluctant monsters or anti-heroes. • No taboos. • Examples: Every Dead Thing – John Connelly Ghoul – Michael Slade American Psycho – Brett Ellis

Short Story Collections Annual Anthologies – The Year’s Best Horror Stories; Best New Horror: 10th Anniversary ed. General Anthologies – Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural; A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights Theme Anthologies – Penguin Book of Vampire Stories; Stories of the Walking Dead; Werewolf! Individual Authors – The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell; Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson

Personal Picks An early A post- Matheson’s For the YA’s effort of apocalyptic 1954 novella Gaiman Siddons and battle about a lone opens the her only between man’s last door into a venture into good and stand against creepy horror. A evil by a a plague of alternate Stephen modern vampires. reality. King favorite. master

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